DARPA: “we just finished playing Horizon: Zero Dawn and honestly, we think we can make this idea work.”
Obligatory “fuck Ted Faro”
Average techbro tbh
It’s legit scary to see tech approach the point where private companies might develop systems that could and in some way are endangering humanity as a species, and all their decision-makers are concerned with is corporate success.
… to see tech approach the point…
Big oil would like a word, alstarting in 1950 at least.
Not to mention literally researching global warming before anyone else bothered, verifying it is happening and that humanity is causing it, then spending decades gaslighting our entire species into widely believing it isn’t.
We knew about global warming since 1900. We just didn’t care.
Unless.
Give it a few years and they will get a military contract to endanger humanity more efficiently.
Moore’s law of mad science: every decade, the IQ needed to end civilization drops by one point.
My god, what a removed.
Well they are still missing the self replicating part… But you know, give it some time.
The machines will code that themselves.
I love how the quote cuts off right before “only goal”.
Oh I assumed it was “our problem”
OK I also briefly thought “our problem” but I’m actually PRETTY CONCERNED about the words “only goal” when I really think about it? “Only”, as in “Yeah, feeding on humanity is definitely ONE thing we’re shooting for, but come on guys, there’s lots of applications”
Excited for IRL Horizon Zero Dawn.
At least in Horizon they solved the climate crisis first, before creating the ribits that would wipe out all life
Which then caused another a climate crisis
Has no one played Horizon Zero Dawn?
I guess we are in that timeline. Tbh, so many things make a lot of sense now.
Someone put bullets in Ted faro. Literally screwed humanity as a whole…twice.
I wish we were in the dino robots timeline
Soon…
I knew it was old news! I read this article 8 years ago
Even older than that
Oh goddamnit of course he did.
Joe Rogan elicited some conspiracy theories and media rumors after he claimed on his podcast “Joe Rogan Experience” that the robot would (or at least could) ingest human remains to keep powering itself.
Now just make them sentient and self replicating and….
You either get Horizon Zero Down or replicators from Star Gate
Or paperclips!
Onion? No? Great…
Next up “researchers wondered what would happen if they put AI to a machine that can consume humans for energy”
If I’m gonna be eaten by a robot I’d much rather be dead first.
These robots don’t do that part. They will build new robots to make corpses for them.
So it’s not supposed to be used to eat the dead, good. OMG. It’s supposed to eat the life ones!
HELL IS FULL
BLOOD IS FUEL
EDITED BY MAX0R
Apparently the robot is designed to be vegan.
But we all know a robot that feasts on the corpses of genocide victims isn’t too far fetched.
We now have a team. The flamethrower dog robot that cooks for the corpse eater.
What the fuck kind of future is this?
Honda’s robots always seemed benevolent, let’s hope they’ll be in our side at least
Faro plague time
Sweet… early stages of the Faro plague